CALGARY - City police have laid second-degree murder charges against one youth and one adult in the fatal stabbing of a man in Brentwood early Saturday.

Officers were called to a residence in the 5000 block of Brisebois Drive N.W. at around 3 a.m. and found two men with stab wounds.

Both were taken to hospital but one of them later died. Police have not named the victim pending an autopsy, but he has been identified by family as Brett Wiese, a 21-year-old University of Calgary student.

His family said he was stabbed trying to eject party crashers.

The other man remains in serious condition in hospital, police said.

Late on Saturday, a 17-year-old young offender, who cannot be named, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

The following day, Mitchell William Harkes, 19, of Calgary was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, and four breaches of various court orders.

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Earlier story:

Ousting a group of party crashers cost Brett Wiese his life, according to the young man’s grieving family.

Wiese, a 21-year-old university student, was with friends at a large house party in Brentwood on the weekend.

That’s where he was stabbed to death, Kip Wiese said in an interview on Sunday.

A group had been kicked out of the house earlier in the evening, Kip said.

“They came back .... with two vehicles, and four people entered the house,” he said. “At least two had knives, unbeknownst to the occupants of the house.

“Our Brett was asking them to leave and he was attacked and stabbed.”

Kip said his nephew was stabbed again by a second person as he continued trying to eject the unwanted group. He identified the first attacker as a 19-year-old man and the second as a 17-year-old woman, whom Brett didn’t know.

No charges have been laid.

Duty inspector Patty McCallum said late Sunday that several people have been taken into police custody for questioning.

Investigators consider the party crashers suspects, McCallum said earlier, but they have not been identified.

The other partiers have been interviewed by police and have been co-operative, she also told the Herald.

Police said they were called to the house early Saturday for reports that two men had been stabbed.

Officers arrived at an address in the 5100 block of Brisebois Drive N.W. shortly after 3 a.m. and found two people suffering from stab wounds.

Both were taken to the Foothills Medical Centre, according to an EMS official, but Wiese died of his injuries.

The other victim remains in the hospital in serious condition.

One man said neighbours were warned earlier in the week that the party could get loud. Neighbours also said police were called to the house more than once as the party was going on.

Mike, who lives across the street, said the house was busy overnight with partiers coming and going into the early morning hours.

“The cabs came and went,” he said.

He believed the home was occupied by university students.

Yellow police tape stretched across several houses on both sides of Brisebois Drive on Sunday, but the blocked-off area of the crime scene was reduced later in the day. Onlookers stared at the Calgary Police Service’s forensic van parked in front of a house on the street.

Meanwhile, in the central Alberta town of Ponoka, Wiese’s family members were remembering the young man as a budding businessman, who kept sterling grades at the University of Calgary, and thought of joining his dad in the car sales business after graduating next year.

Kip Wiese’s voice quivered over the phone as he described a family in mourning.

“They’re just torn apart,” he said. “It’s not just them, but it’s the extended family and the community. There’s been an absolute outpouring emotion from this town.

“The town has been paralyzed by this.”

Speaking on behalf of the family, he also thanked people in town for bringing food and offering their condolences. Funeral plans haven’t been arranged until the autopsy is completed.

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